Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette wheels, and rigged games to strip...

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Thrillers and horror use coin flips, roulette wheels, and rigged games to strip control away from characters, making fate feel brutal and arbitrary. In No Country for Old Men, the coin toss decides life or death with chilling randomness